Elizabeth White

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Cloud is a shift from the focus on underlying technology implementation to leveraging existing implementations and further building upon them. Cloud orchestration or a network of clouds is the wave of the future where these clouds can operate with elasticity, scalability, and efficiency. Effective service management is an important aspect of managing such networks. The transition to the cloud will enable the further aggregation of composite web services and enhanced business-to-business capabilities for integrating processes and applications. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ajay Budhraja, CTO at the Department of Justice, will discuss how, for example, the requirement to access multiple clouds will cause a shift toward utilizing identity management services and single sign-on capabilities. With cloud servic... (more)

Rackspace Acquires SharePoint911

Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, on Thursday announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver unparalleled SharePoint hosting solutions along with expert services to the enterprise market. John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace, noted that they are "thrilled to have the world-class expertise of SharePoint911 on our team to give us greater application delivery service capabilities. Sh... (more)

Bringing Cloud to the Business at Cloud Expo New York

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to public and unmanageably immature cloud services? In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Hans van de Koppel, Sr. Enterprise Architect at Capgemini, will take Cloud Expo delegates to the developing world of cloud services brokerages and cloud orchestration. H... (more)

Atlantis Computing & Trend Micro Launch VMware View Reference Architecture

Atlantis Computing, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimisation solutions and Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704) (TSE: 4704), a global cloud security leader, on Friday announced the release of the first VMware View 5 reference architectures for 1,000 persistent and non-persistent virtual desktops. The groundbreaking new reference architectures were developed by Atlantis Computing and Trend Micro with guidance from VMware and is the first to incorporate the latest technology from VMware View 5 including vSphere 5, View persona, ThinApp... (more)

9th International Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – Photo Album

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer 9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,500 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem. The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. We invite you to en... (more)